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Usually ships in 1 business days | | Only 5 left in stock, order soon! | | | Comprehensive Italian III includes 30 additional lessons (16 hrs.), plus Readings, which build upon the language skills acquired in Levels I and II. Increased spoken and reading language ability. Level III will increase your vocabulary and grammatical structures and triple your spoken proficiency. Upon completion of a level III, you will be able to: * participate in most informal and some formal discussions on practical, social, and some semi-professional topics, * form longer sentences while maintaining the target language syntax, * be understood even by native speakers unused to dealing with foreigners, * handle increasingly difficult grammatical structures, * enjoy fluent conversations with a variety of strangers, * have a near-native accent, and the subtleties of the language will be apparent in your speech, * read at the same level at which you speak. Note: In order for the Pimsleur Method to work correctly, you must first complete the Level I + II language programs before proceeding to the Level III language program. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Pimsleur | | Publisher: | Pimsleur | | Publication Date: | September 12, 2004 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0743528816 | | Package Length: | 12.7 inches | | Package Width: | 11.2 inches | | Package Height: | 1.5 inches | | Package Weight: | 2.25 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 13 reviews |
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2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Worth the money Mar 26, 2008
This is for people who have used Pimsleur Comprehensive I and II.
It is at an intermediate to advanced level.
The audio is very clear. There is ample time for you to repeat. When the English doesn't translate the Italian literally, an explanation and a literal translation is given (some of the time.)
It works because you are hearing good Italian and producing good Italian, by repeating what you hear.
I know that none of the Pimsleur courses have a transcript of the audio, but I think it would be a good idea to furnish one, or at least a printed glossary of the new words introduced in each lesson.
It would also be a good idea to give a FEW explanations of why things are said a certain way. This can be done without complex grammar explanations, which are best done in a book or by a teacher. For example, they could tell you why you don't use the article when you say "mio padre", my father, but you do use the article when you say "il mio libro", my book. The article is not used when you use the personal pronouns for "my", "your", "our" and a family member.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
excellent choice Jun 27, 2007
Two reasons that this product works well:
(1) For one who has only car time to learn language, the Pimsleur CDs are great, as long as you don't mind looking like you're talking to yourself while driving (which you are!).
(2) The graduated lessons, with carefully planned reinforcement, promote natural language learning, the same way a child learns his first language -- perception first, production second.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 A solid continuation from Italian I & II May 22, 2007
If you've completed Italian I and Italian II you can't stop now! Italian III continues naturally on from Italian II, immersing the listener even more deeply into the familiarity of hearing and speaking Italian.
With only a subset of dialogue possible to cover in this final course, I was a little disappointed in the selection of business/office language chosen to be covered in the 30 lessons provided. Nevertheless, this whole series was still an impressive learning tool for me. My Italian skills have increased in leaps and bounds since before I started.
Note that having now listened to all 3 courses, I would highly recommend any potential buyer of Italian III to first buy Italian II, regardless of previous language level (and Italian I if you have had no exposure to Italian).
My only question now that I've completed all 3 courses is....where is Italian IV???!
5 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 Money and time poorly spent Mar 14, 2007
The reviews summarising this course are accurate.It is boring and repetative,unfortunately it does not repeat phrases and sentences that in my opinion are crucial to comprehending the language and speaking it.Accordingly one of its teaching devices is not fully utilised.It also has no "solid blocks of speech" that enable you to comprehend and learn.It is confusing in its use of future and past tenses.It is aimed at business,so,if you want to learn how to get about in Italy on holiday etc,its woeful.Believe me there are better ways to waste your money.Finally I believe the course would be incomprehensible if you had no prior knowledge of the language,unless you are a linguistic Mozart.Too expensive don't buy.
28 of 29 found the following review helpful:
bravissimo Mar 05, 2004
Well, I give Pimsleur Italian (I, II, III) five stars because, for what it does, there is nothing else out there even close. The major pluses of the Pimsleur system: you can rather painlessly learn to speak and understand basic Italian with an absolute minimum of grammatical explanation and without ever so much as opening a book. Furthermore, you'll learn to speak with a good accent. (I actually had a native speaker compliment me on my accent; in fact, he expressed amazement at how good my accent and intonation were. Certainly gratifying to me, but Pimsleur deserves all the credit.) That is remarkable enough in itself, considering you're dealing with a set of tapes (or CD's), where you don't get to see the Italian speaker's lips move, ask questions about pronunciation (or anything else), or get coaching if you mispronounce. Of course, the series has its faults. Other reviewers have mentioned many of them. I would add the following. The pace can sometimes be erratic; some lessons tediously grind away with incessant repetition on the same topic, same words, same phrases, while others bombard you with a bunch of new words and expressions without a lot of practice. Overall, introduction of new grammar is too slow, especially for verbs. And then, of course, the essential contradiction of the entire method: you are always being given a phrase or sentence in English and asked to render it into Italian. What you really want to strive for is to be thinking (as well as speaking) in Italian, not translating English. You need to get the English out of your head and just have Italian in there. The part of each tape I enjoyed the most was all too brief: the introductory conversation in Italian at a brisk pace. These should be longer and more frequent in each lesson. I wanted to hear more Italian! Should the tapes be supplemented with books? It is not at all necessary in my view (here I disagree with other reviewers) but it can be helpful. I myself used Berlitz's "Essential Italian" which is packed with good stuff. Finally, don't think that you will be happily chattering away in Italian when you first set foot in Italy after having gone through the Pimsleur tapes. It will take you a while to get to that level. However, the Italians I encountered were remarkably polite and helpful with my rather tentative Italian (once I got them to stop trying to practice their English on me). And if you get outside the big cities and into the countryside and hamlets (as my wife and I did), you'll find in many cases your Italian is essential for getting along. (You'll be thanking Paul Pimsleur heartily after being in situations where non si parla affatto inglese). Secondly, although you won't be fluent, you WILL be able to make your way well enough, especially if you're trying to sign up for un corso di formazione professionale or need to ask what your Italian friend's nephew wants to do with his life now that he's finished his studies in Art History at the university. Seriously, though, the tapes do a very fine job in equipping you with the basics and indeed with a firm foundation. It's up to you to advance from there. Five stars.
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